March 1, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Tune in today 1:30 p.m. CST for Episode 27 of PrairieCast streaming live from the Webcast One studios. We'll be joined by guests Andy Stoll, a social entrepreneur and media producer working to revive the entrepreneurial community in areas of Cedar Rapids devasted by the 2008 floods and Stefan Hansen of Fresk Interactive who recently debuted the BeerGenius interactive display at El Bait Shop. Discussion… read more
March 1, 2011 by Royce Haynes
Kansas City (Chris Routh and Ben Tyson of Five and Fifty presenting at LAUNCH Conference on February 23rd. Photo by Ken Yeung via Flickr.) There’s a new deal in town and it’s called Five and Fifty, a Kansas City startup that provides businesses a quick and easy way to create a minimum 50% off deal that last for five hours. People in the local area receive the deal through text message, making it different from Groupon. “Five and Fifty is the first real-time… read more
February 28, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Tune in tomorrow, Tuesday, March 1st at 1:30 p.m. CST for Episode 27 of PrairieCast streaming live from the Webcast One studios. We'll be joined by guests Andy Stoll, a social entrepreneur and media producer working to revive the entrepreneurial community in areas of Cedar Rapids devasted by the 2008 floods and Stefan Hansen of Fresk Interactive who recently debuted the BeerGenius interactive… read more
February 28, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Kansas City (Left, Bo Fishback presents Zaarly at Startup Weekend Los Angeles. Photo by Jim Alden via flickr.com/techfrog.) Over the course of three weeks, Zaarly will go from building a prototype and pitching Hollywood celebrity and startup investor Ashton Kutcher to aggresively launching at the tech industry's largest conference, South by Southwest Interactive. If their quick turnaround isn't turning heads by itself, the team is confident it's product will do… read more
February 28, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha MindMixer, a Gov 2.0 startup focused on connecting a community's constituents with its decision-makers, has announced a $300,000 round of funding from Omaha-based Dundee Venture Captial. It wasn't too… read more
February 28, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha For over an hour, renowned industrial design Yves Behar of San Francisco-based fuseproject spoke to attendees gathered for the Design Alliance Omaha (daOMA) speaker event this past Thursday, February 24th in the Joslyn Art Museum's historic Witherspoon Concert Hall. In the opening of his talk, Behar recollected his entrance to the museum earlier that day and his thought to immediately read more
February 28, 2011 by Kate Ellingson
Lincoln Nebraska’s second annual 3-2-1 Quick Pitch competition handed out five awards last Wednesday, February 23rd at Memorial Stadium’s West Stadium Club. Fifty-four students from high schools, two-year colleges and four-year universities gave it their best shot in just three minutes, delivering their “elevator pitch” to over 40 judges from the nearby business and academic community. Students' ideas ranged from software privacy online… read more
February 28, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
The week ahead might just be the busiest week of events we've seen in a long while, and moreover, it's filled with a handful of quality startup-focused events. We're, of course, very excited about the first event on this week's calendar, the Silicon Prairie News - Kansas City Launch Party, and we hope to see many familiar and new faces at McFadden's on Tuesday night. You'll find the listing… read more
Through August 22, help us decide the winners of our inaugural Silicon Prairie Awards, which will recognize 12
companies and individuals. You can vote once per day per category.
Winners will be announced live on stage at
our August 30 event.
